It is rumoured in Kabul that the Independent Election Commission is under pressure to rush out election results in an effort to accustom public opinion to the legitimacy of a Karzai victory which some are already claiming could be greater than 70 percent. Unofficial reports (Press TV) claim that Karzai has won with 3,244,196 votes [...]
Category Archives: gaza
Afghan election update: Karzai rumoured to have won with an improbable majority
August 24, 2009 – 4:18 pm
War crimes charges filed by international attorneys against 15 Israeli officials
January 27, 2009 – 9:18 am
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4599&Itemid=1 According to Palestinian News Network (PNN) – international lawyers are filing war crime charges against Israeli officials at the international Criminal Court in the Hague. The French lawyer orchestrating the case claims that there is some fear of interference from the United Nations Security Council under pressure from the United States to stop proceedings [...]
Israel lobby victorious as BBC refuses to help with humanitarian appeal
January 25, 2009 – 6:21 pm
In a display of lip-curling spinelessness, the BBC has refused to air the non-aligned Disasters Emergency Committee appeal for Humanitarian Aid to the victims of the Gaza conflict. Other UK (commercial) TV channels, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5, have agreed to air the appeal. Sky Television is considering its position. (UPDATE: unsurprisingly, Sky has [...]
Mission accomplished as Israel announces truce in Gaza
January 18, 2009 – 1:47 am
Having reached all ‘the goals of the war, and beyond’ Israeli President Olmert trumpeted a unilateral truce to commence at 00.00 am today, having been told to stop killing so many civilians by the US on Friday, ahead of Obama’s inauguration and with enough dead and wounded Palestinians to ensure election victory. The calculation [...]
Update: 3000 ton US arms shipment to Israel postponed/rerouted
January 13, 2009 – 8:25 pm
The carefully-worded caveats surrounding the veracity of our earlier piece were unnecessary: despite earlier prevarication, the Pentagon has confirmed that the US were sending 3000 tons of munitions in 25 containers from Greece to Israel, timed to arrive at the end of January. This volte face obviously had nothing to do with the leaking of [...]
Unusually Large U.S. Weapons Shipment to Israel: Are the US and Israel Planning a Broader Middle East War?
January 13, 2009 – 2:18 pm
By Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research The contents of this article, which can be viewed in full at the link below, are summarised here with no endorsement or comment by Thus Magazine or guarantees as to their accuracy, save that, where indicated, attributed sources or comment in the public domain has been checked. This piece, which [...]
Update: Israeli reservists move in for the endgame as Gaza leaves the front pages
January 12, 2009 – 12:51 pm
Tony Blair has come back from yet another much-needed holiday and New Year at his multi-million pound country seat, formerly owned by that other consummate actor, Sir John Geilgud, to go through the motions with beacon of democracy, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, earning his corn with insights such as: ”I am hopeful we can [...]
Update: Hamas and Israel reject UN ceasefire resolution
January 9, 2009 – 1:25 pm
Despite the early optimism of UK Foreign Minister, David Miliband, who greeted last night’s UN Security Council Resolution for an immediate ceasefire as ‘the world speaking with one voice,’ the problem was – it wasn’t. Although the vote was carried 14-0, the US, as predicted (Thus passim) abstained. Israel, which doesn’t care much for the [...]
Update: Not all the Israel lobby are unreasonable
Labour Friends of Israel vice-chair Louise Ellman joined the chorus of criticism of the BBC for refusing to air the DRC appeal. The Telegraph reported her comment: ‘The BBC should allow the appeal to go ahead. If the BBC has specific concerns about whether the money should reach those in need then it should raise [...]